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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2016, 7:13 PM CDT for Pierce County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2016, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
County Pierce County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:20 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 55 | River Falls, WI | . |
| Jul 5, 7:26 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ese Prescott, WI | 10-12 ASPEN UPROOTED AND BLOCKING ROAD ON HOLLISTER STREET (570TH AVE) IN PRESCOTT. POWER AND PHONE LINES WERE DOWNED BY THE TREE. REPORTED TO PIERCE COUNTY DISPATCH VIA MDC AND RADIO. |
| Jul 5, 7:26 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | River Falls, WI | 8 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN. |
| Jul 5, 7:52 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | River Falls, WI | 8 TO 10 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 348 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 505 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
976
WWUS83 KMPX 060013
SPSMPX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
713 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016
MNZ063-WIZ023-024-060100-
WASHINGTON-ST. CROIX-PIERCE-
713 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN ST. CROIX AND PIERCE
COUNTIES...
AT 713 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER RIVER FALLS...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RIVER FALLS...HUDSON...PRESCOTT...NORTH HUDSON...BAYPORT...ELLSWORTH...
AFTON...BALDWIN...HAMMOND...ROBERTS...WOODVILLE AND ELMWOOD.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 94 IN MINNESOTA NEAR MILE MARKER 258.
INTERSTATE 94 IN WISCONSIN BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 31.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 4455 9233 4457 9251 4457 9255 4460 9256
4461 9261 4466 9264 4474 9279 4505 9278
4497 9214 4457 9214
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 288DEG 27KT 4484 9259
$$
JRBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Rice, Scott | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott | 29 min |
| Jul 5, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Brown, Carver, Dakota, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice and 2 more | 118 min |
| Jul 5, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 8:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | Goodhue | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin, Pierce | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pepin, Pierce | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 55 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.